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Definition of guardant in US English:

guardant

adjective

usually postpositive(especially of an animal) depicted with the body sideways and the face toward the viewer.

‘three lions passant guardant’

‘The lion passant guardant appears in various places; the renderings of it in the Palatine Chapel completed before 1143 antedate this symbol's presumed use by the King of England.’

‘This design is blazoned as ‘Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or,’ and it is still the coat of arms of England today.’

‘Between 1405 and 1603 the Royal Arms of England were Quarterly, France Modern and England; three fleur-de-lis in the 1st and 4th quarters, and three lions passant guardant in the 2nd and 3rd quarters.’

‘The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.’

‘His younger brother (who became King John) had a seal in 1177 with two lions passant guardant.’

Origin

Late 16th century: from French gardant ‘guarding’, from garder ‘to guard’.